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An enterprise network uses ADVPN 2.0 with BGP running over IPsec tunnels. A spoke needs to initiate a shortcut tunnel to another spoke. Which FortiOS CLI command is used on the hub to verify the active shortcut tunnels and view the shortcut state information?
Medium2When configuring an IPsec tunnel using IKEv2, which THREE parameters are commonly negotiated during Phase 1?
Hard3You are managing FortiGates across multiple ADOMs. How can you share common firewall objects (e.g., mail servers, common IP ranges) across these ADOMs?
Hard4Which command allows you to view the current routing table for a specific VDOM?
Medium5Which TWO options are available when configuring an SD-WAN rule in FortiManager?
Medium6A network administrator is configuring SSL inspection for a group of users. Which certificate must be installed on the client endpoints to prevent browser certificate warnings?
Easy7What is the purpose of the 'Gateway' override in an SD-WAN member configuration?
Hard8Which TWO methods can be used to update SD-WAN policies across all managed devices in FortiManager?
Medium9You are deploying a new SD-WAN interface. What is the mandatory step before you can add an interface to an SD-WAN zone?
Easy10An administrator is migrating a standalone FortiGate into an existing FortiManager. What happens to the existing firewall policies on the FortiGate during the import process?
Hard11Which TWO methods are used to achieve traffic separation in a multi-VDOM environment?
Medium12When configuring an SD-WAN rule for a specific application, how does the FortiGate identify the traffic?
Hard13An administrator configures an SD-WAN rule with a 'Lowest Cost (SLA)' strategy. What determines the metric used by FortiOS to select the best interface when multiple links meet the SLA criteria?
Easy14When configuring SD-WAN in FortiManager, why would you use 'Shared Objects'?
Medium15A network administrator needs to provision a new SD-WAN zone across 50 managed FortiGates using FortiManager. The administrator wants to minimize manual configuration and ensure that the SD-WAN settings remain consistent. Which FortiManager feature should be used to achieve this?
Medium16What happens if you modify an SD-WAN template that is already applied to a FortiGate?
Hard17What is the effect of changing the IPS 'buffer' size on a FortiGate device?
Hard18An administrator notices that logs are not appearing in FortiManager for a specific FortiGate. What is the first thing to check to ensure log forwarding is active?
Hard19When using SD-WAN, how does the 'member' configuration interact with physical interfaces?
Medium20You need to inspect traffic between two VDOMs. Which mechanism is required?
Hard21What is the benefit of using 'CLI Templates' in FortiManager?
Medium22A FortiGate is performing OSPF routing. You want to redistribute connected routes into OSPF, but only for a specific subnet. How can this be achieved?
Hard23In SD-WAN central management, what is the 'SD-WAN Zone' used for?
Medium24Which component of FortiManager allows for the centralized management of firmware across multiple devices?
Easy25When viewing the SD-WAN Monitor in FortiManager, what information is provided for the 'Health Check' status?
Medium26Which THREE of the following protocols can be used for Performance SLA probes?
Medium27Which parameter, when modified in a policy, causes a session flush for all active connections hitting that policy?
Hard28When using SD-WAN zones, what is the primary benefit of grouping multiple physical interfaces into a single zone?
Easy29How can you verify that an SD-WAN configuration change was successfully applied to a FortiGate via FortiManager?
Medium30Which SD-WAN rule strategy should you choose if you want to distribute traffic across multiple interfaces based on their bandwidth weights?
Medium31Which THREE pieces of information are displayed in the SD-WAN Monitor in FortiManager?
Hard32You are configuring an IPsec VPN tunnel between two FortiGates. Phase 1 comes up successfully, but Phase 2 fails. You have verified that the pre-shared keys match and the proposals are identical. What is the most likely cause?
Hard33Which TWO of the following are benefits of using SD-WAN templates in FortiManager?
Medium34An administrator wants to use FortiManager to push a configuration change to 50 FortiGates simultaneously. Which method minimizes downtime and ensures consistency?
Medium35An administrator needs to perform a firmware upgrade on 100 FortiGates. Which feature in FortiManager allows this to be done securely with a rollback option?
Hard36Which TWO components are synchronized between HA members?
Medium37What is the impact of checking the 'Interface Preference' box in an SD-WAN rule?
Medium38What is the purpose of the 'Inbound' interface setting in an SD-WAN rule?
Medium39An administrator implements BGP over SD-WAN tunnels to a cloud provider. The cloud provider requires BGP MD5 authentication on all peering sessions. Where is BGP MD5 authentication configured on the FortiGate?
Medium40Which interface can be used as an SD-WAN member in an SD-WAN template?
Easy41What is the default behavior of a FortiGate firewall policy when no explicit policy matches the traffic?
Easy42Which FortiGate feature should be enabled to prevent internal users from accessing malicious websites based on real-time threat intelligence?
Medium43An enterprise deploys ADVPN 2.0 with BGP and security profiles applied to traffic traversing the VPN overlay. Which THREE statements are correct regarding how security profiles and ADVPN 2.0 interact in FortiOS? (Choose three)
Hard44What is the result of 'Pushing' a policy package from FortiManager to a FortiGate?
Easy45If an SD-WAN template contains a reference to an interface that does not exist on a target FortiGate, what occurs during the installation process?
Hard46Which THREE of the following are mandatory for a BGP neighbor adjacency to establish?
Hard47You need to inspect traffic between two internal VLANs. How do you ensure this traffic is processed by the FortiGate?
Medium48You are configuring an IPS policy to protect a web server. You notice that traffic is being dropped due to a false positive. Which action is the most efficient way to resolve this while maintaining security?
Medium49Which TWO methods can be used to authenticate a FortiGate when it registers to a FortiManager?
Medium50What is the default behavior for 'override' in FortiGate HA?
Easy51You are configuring BGP and need to advertise a summary route to your ISP. How do you ensure only the summary route is advertised?
Hard52Which THREE of the following are parameters that can be monitored in a Performance SLA?
Medium53What is the effect of changing the 'Hold-down' timer in a Performance SLA?
Medium54What is the impact of changing the 'set vdom-mode' from 'no-vdom' to 'multi-vdom'?
Easy55When using SD-WAN templates, how are SD-WAN rules ordered?
Medium56Which object must be created before assigning a health check to an SD-WAN service rule in an SD-WAN template?
Medium57An enterprise network uses OSPF over SD-WAN IPsec tunnels. The administrator notices that OSPF adjacency is constantly dropping over a specific backup SD-WAN member link due to intermittent packet loss. Which THREE configuration adjustments can improve OSPF stability over unstable SD-WAN IPsec links? (Choose three)
Hard58When creating an SD-WAN template, what must be defined before you can add an SD-WAN interface to the template?
Medium59What is required before FortiManager can display SD-WAN monitoring data?
Easy60When setting up a Performance SLA, what is the 'Participant' setting?
Medium61A FortiGate device is running ADVPN 2.0 with OSPF. A spoke experiences transient routing loops when a shortcut tunnel tears down due to inactivity timeout. Which configuration adjustment on the FortiGate hub and spokes prevents these temporary routing blackholes or loops during shortcut teardown?
Hard62Which TWO of the following are necessary to successfully deploy an SSL VPN in tunnel mode?
Medium63A FortiGate is operating in transparent mode. What is the default behavior when the device receives a frame with an unknown MAC address?
Medium64If you modify a shared SD-WAN health check object that is referenced by ten different templates, what happens to the FortiGates?
Hard65What is the maximum number of members allowed in a single SD-WAN zone?
Medium66In an ADVPN 2.0 deployment, a hub unit uses BGP to advertise routes to spokes. When a spoke learns a prefix via BGP from the hub, what mechanism allows the spoke to automatically initiate an ADVPN shortcut tunnel directly to another spoke when traffic flows between them?
Medium67During SD-WAN template deployment, what is the role of 'Dynamic Mapping'?
Hard68Which TWO administrative actions require a 'Workspace Mode' enabled in FortiManager?
Medium69When using SD-WAN templates, which option allows you to manage different ISPs on different branches within the same template?
Medium70Which TWO actions can be performed on a Revision History item in FortiManager?
Medium71An administrator applies security profiles (Antivirus, Web Filtering, and IPS) to traffic steered by an SD-WAN rule. Performance issues arise. Which TWO methods can the administrator use to optimize inspection performance without completely disabling security? (Choose two)
Medium72Which configuration mode allows you to define a virtual MAC address for an HA cluster to prevent ARP cache issues on switches?
Easy73When configuring an SD-WAN health check to monitor internet reachability using HTTP/HTTPS requests, which parameter defines the specific string the FortiGate expects to receive in the server response body to validate that the path is healthy?
Easy74Which THREE of the following criteria are used for SD-WAN rule traffic matching?
Medium75You are troubleshooting a policy installation failure where the FortiManager reports a 'Configuration conflict'. Which action should you perform to identify the root cause of the mismatch?
Hard76When troubleshooting SD-WAN performance SLA packet loss, an administrator wants to view real-time latency, jitter, and packet loss statistics for individual health check members. Which CLI command should be executed?
Easy77You notice that an IPsec tunnel is up, but no traffic passes. What is the most common reason related to firewall policy configuration?
Medium78You are troubleshooting high CPU usage on a FortiGate. Which process would you check to see if the IPS engine is the cause?
Medium79Which TWO of the following are benefits of using the FortiGate flow-based inspection mode?
Medium80What is the primary function of the FortiGate Security Fabric?
Easy81Which TWO of the following are valid methods for user authentication on a FortiGate?
Medium82Which THREE items are included in the configuration file of a FortiGate?
Hard83When using an IPS sensor, what is the difference between 'Protect' and 'Monitor' mode?
Medium84Which TWO types of reports can be generated in the FortiAnalyzer module of FortiManager?
Medium85An administrator wants to apply a Web Filtering security profile to traffic that is being dynamically steered via an SD-WAN rule. Where must this security profile be enforced in FortiOS?
Easy86Which TWO settings are modified to reduce the impact of a failover event in an HA cluster?
Medium87Which TWO of these are valid SD-WAN health check protocols?
Medium88You are using 'SLA Target' as your strategy. What happens if multiple members meet the SLA?
Hard89When adding a FortiGate to FortiManager, which mode must the FortiGate be in to allow the FortiManager to manage its configuration and policies?
Easy90Which THREE aspects of the FortiGate system are affected by changing the global 'set vdom-mode' to 'multi-vdom'?
Hard91Which THREE items are included in a Policy Package when it is pushed from FortiManager?
Hard92In a VDOM-enabled environment, how are administrative accounts managed?
Hard93What is the primary purpose of an ADOM in FortiManager?
Easy94You are troubleshooting an issue where traffic is not using an SD-WAN rule despite meeting criteria. What is the most likely cause?
Hard95When configuring SD-WAN services in a template, what does the 'Performance SLA' setting determine?
Medium96You are configuring a Performance SLA to monitor reachability to a SaaS application. Which parameter determines the threshold for an interface to be considered 'unhealthy' in the SD-WAN routing table?
Medium97An administrator configures an SD-WAN rule using the 'Volume' strategy across two IPsec tunnels with different bandwidth capacities (Tunnel A: 100 Mbps, Tunnel B: 50 Mbps). How does FortiOS distribute traffic across these members when using the Volume strategy?
Medium98Which command is used to verify the current status of SD-WAN members and their SLA health from the CLI?
Medium99Which FortiGate feature is used to group multiple physical interfaces for redundancy at Layer 2?
Easy100Which protocol is NOT a valid option for Performance SLA probes?
Easy101Which TWO criteria can be used in SD-WAN rules to select an outgoing interface?
Medium102Which TWO of the following can be used as a 'Source' in an SD-WAN rule?
Hard103Where are SD-WAN zones managed in the FortiGate GUI?
Easy104An administrator wants to view the active SD-WAN rule hit counts and verify which traffic is matching a specific SD-WAN rule in FortiOS. Which command should be used?
Easy105Which TWO actions should be taken when preparing to upgrade a FortiGate HA cluster?
Medium106An administrator troubleshoots a scenario where traffic matching an application-based SD-WAN rule is bypassing the preferred high-speed MPLS tunnel and taking the backup broadband tunnel instead. Which THREE factors should the administrator check to resolve this routing discrepancy? (Choose three)
Hard107An IPsec VPN tunnel used as an SD-WAN member is experiencing intermittent flapping due to DPD (Dead Peer Detection) timeout issues over a high-latency satellite link. How should the administrator adjust the Phase 1 IPsec settings on FortiOS to stabilize the tunnel without completely disabling failure detection?
Hard108How do you apply an SD-WAN template to multiple managed FortiGates simultaneously?
Easy109An SD-WAN rule is configured with 'Lowest Cost (SLA)' strategy. If all members in the SLA meet the requirements, how does the FortiGate select the outgoing interface?
Hard110Which THREE factors influence log storage efficiency on a FortiAnalyzer/FortiManager?
Hard111Which feature in FortiManager allows you to monitor SD-WAN performance across all managed FortiGates?
Easy112You are setting up an SD-WAN configuration via FortiManager. Which object type is used to group multiple WAN interfaces for SD-WAN member assignment?
Medium113What is the purpose of the 'Any' interface in a firewall policy?
Easy114Where can an administrator check the status of the connection between a FortiGate and FortiManager?
Easy115In a site-to-site VPN, you need to allow traffic initiated from the remote site. What configuration is essential on the local FortiGate?
Medium116When configuring an SD-WAN rule, what is the purpose of the 'Source' address field?
Medium117You want to automate the onboarding of new FortiGate units. Which FortiManager feature allows you to pre-configure devices before they connect to the network?
Medium118What is the purpose of 'dedicated HA' interfaces?
Easy119An administrator needs to inspect encrypted traffic traversing an SD-WAN IPsec tunnel using Deep Packet Inspection (DPI). What must be installed on the client endpoints or configured on the FortiGate to prevent browser trust warnings when using SSL/TLS full inspection?
Easy120What does the 'FortiGuard' service provide to the FortiGate?
Easy121An administrator configures a static route where the gateway is an SD-WAN zone instead of a specific IP address. How does FortiOS process this SD-WAN static route?
Easy122When configuring advanced IPsec VPN tunnels to act as members of an SD-WAN zone, which TWO configuration parameters on the FortiGate are critical for ensuring proper IPsec tunnel operation and traffic steering? (Choose two)
Medium123What does the 'set tcp-rst-timeout' command control?
Medium124You are configuring SD-WAN templates in FortiManager. What is the primary purpose of using SD-WAN Central Management instead of configuring SD-WAN directly on individual FortiGates?
Medium125What is the benefit of using 'SD-WAN Zones' in templates when managing 100+ branches?
Medium126Which THREE types of traffic are typically NOT offloaded by the NP6 processor?
Hard127Which THREE factors can affect the 'Performance SLA' logic in an SD-WAN template?
Hard128You want to standardize the SD-WAN configuration for 50 remote branch offices. Which FortiManager feature should you use?
Medium129A network administrator is configuring an HA cluster with two FortiGates in Active-Passive mode. Which parameter must be identical on both devices to ensure a successful cluster formation?
Easy130Which THREE steps are involved in the 'Policy Package Installation' workflow?
Hard131You have a large SD-WAN deployment. Why would you use a 'Centralized Policy' in FortiManager instead of local policies?
Hard132In a complex VPN scenario with NAT-Traversal (NAT-T) enabled, what is the primary purpose of the UDP 4500 port?
Hard133You are implementing SSL VPN and need to ensure that only compliant corporate laptops can connect. Which feature should you use?
Medium134Which method is the most secure for managing FortiGate devices remotely?
Easy135You have an SD-WAN rule with 'Priority' strategy. What happens if the highest priority member fails its SLA?
Hard136You are configuring an IPsec VPN tunnel between two FortiGates. Phase 2 fails to come up. What is the most likely cause?
Medium137An administrator has applied an SD-WAN template to a FortiGate managed by FortiManager. Later, the administrator modifies the template by adding a new SD-WAN member and installing the configuration. What is the expected outcome on the FortiGate?
Hard138An administrator is troubleshooting BGP route propagation over SD-WAN IPsec tunnels where a branch office is not receiving specific routes from the datacenter hub. Which TWO CLI commands on the FortiGate are most useful for diagnosing BGP peering and advertised route issues? (Choose two)
Medium139Which TWO of the following can be used to optimize IPsec VPN performance?
Medium140An administrator configures an SD-WAN health check with multiple probes (e.g., ping and HTTP) to monitor a set of IPsec VPN tunnels. Which THREE criteria or settings govern how FortiOS determines whether an SD-WAN member has met or failed the performance SLA? (Choose three)
Hard141A FortiGate SD-WAN deployment uses a firewall policy with an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) profile applied. After turning on IPS, administrators notice that throughput over an IPsec SD-WAN tunnel drops significantly. What is the primary reason for this throughput reduction, and how can it be mitigated?
Medium142Which THREE tasks are required to successfully deploy SD-WAN via FortiManager?
Hard143An administrator needs to provide access to FortiManager for a junior team member who should only be able to view logs and reports. Which feature is used to define this access?
Hard144Which TWO of the following steps are required to correctly configure a Performance SLA?
Hard145An administrator is troubleshooting an SD-WAN deployment where traffic matching an SD-WAN rule with a destination service object (e.g., HTTPS) is not being steered according to the SLA priority. Instead, it is always taking the default static route member. Upon checking the firewall policies, what is the most common reason why an SD-WAN rule fails to process application or service-based traffic matching?
Hard146Which TWO items must be configured within an SD-WAN template for SD-WAN traffic steering to work?
Medium147You need to ensure that VoIP traffic stays on the interface with the lowest jitter. Which strategy should you use?
Hard148Which THREE items can be managed via Device Templates in FortiManager?
Hard149Which TWO configuration changes require a push from FortiManager to the FortiGate?
Medium150An administrator is configuring BGP over SD-WAN IPsec tunnels between a headquarters FortiGate and branch FortiGates. Which TWO configuration steps are required to ensure robust and stable dynamic routing over the SD-WAN IPsec tunnels? (Choose two)
Medium151Which THREE types of traffic are typically inspected by an IPS policy?
Hard152Which TWO of the following can cause an SD-WAN member to be marked as 'down' in an SLA?
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